from Andrew Gross of the Record,

From time to time at Madison Square Garden, I’ve bumped into David Gottlieb, a Rangers’ season-ticket holder since 1997 who bleeds the clichéd blue and whose passion for his team is typical of most die-hard NHL fans.

But with the NHL facing a Saturday deadline for its third lockout since 1994 and fourth labor stoppage since 1992, Gottlieb says enough is enough.

The transplanted 45-year-old Californian and former Golden Seals fan, posted a "fan’s manifesto" online last week stating that if the start of the NHL season Oct. 11 is disrupted, he will be done with the league forever.

"If this is the prevailing wisdom," Gottlieb wrote in his 1,725-word blog entry addressed to NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, NHL owners and the NHL Players’ Association, "and if you are going to push the nuclear button on playing a full season, then I will push my nuclear button: return my season tickets to the Rangers, no longer spend a dime on the NHL, discontinue my NHL Center Ice Service, dump the GameCenter apps from my electronic devices.

"I will simply erase the NHL from my present and future."

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